A man has admitted that he robbed a woman working at a garage in Denbigh at the end of April.

Defendant Robert Shane Hughes, aged 30, of Bryn Seion, Denbigh, was further remanded in custody pending sentence by Judge Niclas Parry, sitting at Mold Crown Court.

The judge told him that he would be given significant credit in sentencing for pleading guilty at such an early stage.

But given the fact that it was a serious offence combined with his previous convictions then he would be facing a significant custodial sentence, he said.

Hughes appeared in court via a live television link from Altcourse Prison in Liverpool.

He admitted robbing a female cashier of £180 in cash together with a quantity of cigarettes at the garage on April 29.

But he denied a separate charge of threatening her with a blade and that was adjourned for the prosecution to decide whether it wished to proceed with it.

A charge of common assault upon the robbery victim was dropped after the court was told that would be part of the facts of the robbery offence.